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"Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'"
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"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

"Nothing you build will ever last without a lot of tender-loving-care (TLC)."

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."

"One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do."
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"Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own."

"I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you and sing softlyand go with you to and from sleep.I would like to be the one in the housewho knew: The night was cold.And I would like to listen in and listen outinto you, into the world, into the woods.The clocks shout to one another striking,and one sees to the bottom of time.And down below one last, strange man walks byand rouses a strange dog.And after that comes silence.I have laid my eyes upon you wide;and they hold you gently and let you gowhen something stirs in the dark."
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"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."

"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."

"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."

"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me."

"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear."

"For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture."

"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."
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